Niyeaux

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    just a minor warning, some onboard soundcard can have serious issues with external usb ones (i know from personal experience a few years back), think its a good idea but do your homework about potential issues.

    You just have to change your windows settings so that it uses the USB card as the default sound device. It's not a big deal.

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    Well hey, i'm just saying, there just happens to be that big thriving indie scene on Steam filled with games that are very much console-influenced and built around gamepads.

    Don't underestimate the extent to which the 360's gamepad has become the de facto standard for gamepads on PC.

    The dude who made Super Meat Boy specifically tried the thing out with some very controller-oriented 2D platformers, including his own game, and says it works quite well.

    http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with-the-steam-controller

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    Every once in a while people decide to leave when they've had enough of it.

     

    Anyway, reading over Mike's non-apology, nothing in there contains him saying he's sorry for making the offending merchandise in the first place. Every time he talked about how the situation should've been dropped on their part, he's included making the merchandise anyway. Like he doesn't effin' get it. He agreed to stop producing / selling the merchandise in protest and still protests. That is not the attitude of someone who is apologetic. It is the attitude of someone who remains bitter.

    "With that said I absolutely regret everything we did after that comic. I regret the follow up strip, I regret making the merchandise, I regret pulling the merchandise and I regret being such an asshole on twitter to people who were upset."

    Not sure how that could possibly be any clearer.

  14. Posted

    I'm really not sure where this idea that PAX is a "hostile environment" is coming from. I attended a gender diversity panel this PAX, and it was both well-attended and extremely positive. All the questions were from folks looking for solutions to their own problems with gaming communities/gender politics, and no one was rude or negative at any point in the whole thing.

     

    It's such a ridiculous extrapolation to think that because one of the guys who writes a comic that this convention is loosely based around says some dumb shit sometimes, the whole event is a hive of rape and misogyny. Have any of the people who are under this impression ever actually been to a PAX event of any sort?

  15. Posted

    Oh, good, it's not just me. I haven't played any of their other games, I don't think, but all the gameplay in that kickstarter video looks like bog-standard action platforming. We've got a good 30 years worth of games that have done that pretty well, so I think I'll pass on this one.

  17. Posted

    Everything SecretAsianMan just said is on point.

     

    Also, this:

     

    For example: I live in Texas. I don't attend the numerous Tea Party gatherings that go on down here and try to educate them on... the long list of things those people should be educated on. They don't want to be educated. They like their ignorance. You can't do anything with people like that. I think it's better to build around them and marginalize their viewpoints. Or maybe it's just better for my blood pressure. Either way, I don't like giving them the opportunity to drain my energy that I could be spending on something useful.

    ...is a really bad analogy, and I think everyone can see why without me spelling it out. (Hint: PAX is an event about games, not about Mike's misguided personal opinions. A Tea Party rally, on the other hand, is about...)

  18. Posted

    Fuck that.

     

    You don't need to be at PAX to tell someone they're a fucking asshole. That's what we have the Internet for. The kind of bullshit that gets spewed by Mike's apologists can get my blood boiling so badly it's probably best I stay on the other side of an Internet connection from them, anyway.

     

    People don't have to be forced into an arena where they feel uncomfortable just to use their voice because that's where the assholes congregate most. Those are the people least likely to change their minds, anyway. And it automatically puts party seeking change at an unfair disadvantage. I say speak up where ever you feel most comfortable in the way that works best for you. Just keep speaking up as long as you can.

    Your end goal here is to call a dude an asshole? I was under the impression that the goal was to make gaming as inclusive of a community as possible. To that end, giving panels on gender/race/LGBT acceptance at a conference with 120,000 attendees seems like a pretty good idea, regardless of whether one of the dudes who runs the conference is a dickhead or not.

  19. Posted

    Boycotting PAX is destined to be completely ineffectual. There are 120,000 people who attended PAX this year, and ~119,000 of them either don't care about, or are completely unaware of, this whole controversy. The only thing that will be accomplished by those 1000 people who do care boycotting PAX is removing their voice from the conversation - and believe me, that conversation was in full swing at PAX this year. There were panels about gender representation in games, gender diversity in games media, queer acceptance in the games community, etc. Those panels were well-attended from what I saw, and stand a pretty good chance of educating people on the issues they discuss.

     

    If you want to take your ball and go home because of some dumb shit Mike said, you're more than welcome to do so, but don't for a second think that that's going to help the situation at large. All that will do is make those panels disappear, make that viewpoint disappear from the PAX dialogue, and leave even more people in the dark than there currently are.

  23. Posted

    Yeah, 2025 definitely has online stuff. Not to mention a fairly ridiculous amount of new features, like different player classes and stuff. I'm stooooked.

    I'm gonna play it TOMORROW, and probably write about it ASAP, so expect a preview of sorts from me within the next few days.